Unfunny 'jokes' about Flight MH370...

Strange to see so many unfunny tickers. It's like these 239 people have disappeared into some kind of limbo state (see ‘Schrödinger's cat’) where witless humour is suddenly OK... rather than the more sobering truth, which is that they’re all dead. Yes, I know: there’s potential for comedy in even the bleakest scenario, but no-one’s got close to it yet...

I think when it 1st broke there were the usual clumsy/unfunny attempts at humour which left most of thinking it was too early. Unfortunately as the week has gone on it's dissolved into a farce making it ripe for humour despite the ethical dilemma. I held off to start with but am guilty of a couple of 1 liners.
Yes it's tragic that no doubt all these people will be dead but it's not the first time we've done it and how do you lose something that big !

I don't think there's a specific limit. War/flood/famine have been the source for some great jokes but it's a case of being funny without necessarily laughing at the loss of life. As above the plane crash is tragic but the farce of the search has to be satirised. Also there are the occasional really naughty ones which are just so funny they have to escape (I'm thinking big disaster jokes).

1. Did you genuinely laugh out loud at your own ticker the first time you wrote it? (if so, publish and be damned)

2. Would you happily put your real name against it if your mum and closest friend and significant other were to see it? (note: if those three are the same person it might explain one or two of the tickers round here).

Good ones, Kevin. I'd add a rider on the first one to say that if you laughed at more than one of your own tickers, publish only the one that you found funniest.

Is it shameful to admit that I laughed out loud at the news report that detectives investigating the disappearance of Flight MH370 have been searching the pilot's house? It was only later in the bulletin that they mentioned the suspicion that the pilot may have been in on it and they were looking for evidence, not the plane itself.

My mom had one of the most vicious senses of humor ever, so that's not a fair test for me. I particularly remember the day she was howling laughing as we sped past a friend's wife waiting for a city bus. (Friend lost all his money + his wife forced to take public transportation = comedy gold.) Even I thought that was a little harsh.

1. Did you genuinely laugh out loud at your own ticker :
I always laugh out loud it's just everyone else who thinks they're shit....
2. Would you happily put your real name against it if your mum and closest friend and significant other were to see it? :
They all know what a sick puppy I am and consider this place some sort of group-therapy